Word: jails
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...wielding sticks and bars. Earlier in the day, one Red Shirt leader, Jatuporn Prompan, had called on his fellow protesters to attack Abhisit in order to hasten the government's ouster. That evening, Thaksin - who is in self-imposed exile presumably because of a two-year conflict-of-interest jail sentence by a Thai court - added fuel to the fire by saying the time might be right for a "revolution." (Read a TIME Q&A with Thaksin...
...several western countries still using capital punishment as a form of retributive justice.“This is a story of how the legal system can get it wrong sometimes, and this is the worst case scenario of how innocent people became damaged because of their time in jail,” Younge says. “As college kids on campus, we should be aware of these issues, even if they don’t specifically relate to us.”The cast and actors of the play hope to use the power of their production to make...
...Neal, Redmond • arrest of - mere months after being arrested with father of for possession of meth - for showing up at a Los Angeles jail facility (to which he gave a friend a ride) in possession of heroin...
...against illegal immigration, he sees himself as a reluctant warrior drawn to action by federal timidity. If the government had done its job and enforced laws against illegal immigration, he argues, he wouldn't have had to go through the initiative process. "Just start putting a few folks in jail and the world will change," he says...
After lobbing his shoes at George W. Bush last December--during the then U.S. President's final official visit to Iraq--Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, a journalist turned Iraqi hero, was sentenced to three years in jail on March 12. Al-Zaidi declared that his actions were patriotic and just...